10/66 Life2Years - Population-based Study Protocols

10/66 Life2Years Study Manual

This provides a much more detailed procedure for the implementation of the population-based studies, including the verbal autopsy, blood sampling and the 18 month nested cohort study.

Click here to download the English version of the manual (MS Word)

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Paper Questionnaires for 10/66 Life2Years Study

Each of the twelve interviews/ assessments required for the 10/66 Life2Years Study (listed below) is provided as a word file with the same name. All of these assessments have been modified from the previous 10/66 assessments (prevalence, incidence or INDEP).

Summary of Assessments for 10/66 Life2Years Study
Interview	Administered to	Scope
background_participant	Participant	Socio-demographic and risk factor interview
background_participant_proxy	Informant	as per background participant, but used where the participant is too impaired to give reliable information
Household	Participant, informant and other household members	Age ascertainment, household composition, household assets
Cognitive	Participant	10-word learning task and The Community Screening Instrument for Dementia
Gms	Participant	The Geriatric Mental State structured clinical interview
Informant	Informant	Carer/ coresident strain, care arrangements, informant report of cognitive and functional decline, and onset and course of dementia
Neuroex	Participant	BP, anthropometry and neurological examination
Inform_deceased	Informant of a deceased participants	Assessement of health of the older participant before his/her death
Verbal autopsy	Informant of deceased participants	Date and cause of death
Informant_FU	Participants selected for 18-month nested cohort	Carer/ coresident strain, care arrangements, informant report of cognitive and functional decline, and onset and course of dementia
Neuroex_FU	Participants selected for 18-month nested cohort	BP, anthropometry and neurological examination
Participant_FU_incl_proxy	Participant / Informant	Self-rated health

Click here to download the L2Y survey assessments in English (Zip file)

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Epidata Coding Sheets and Data Entry Files for 10/66 Life2Years Study

All data collected in the 10/66 studies is entered using the EPIDATA, a public domain data entry program, which can be copied and distributed without charge. It can therefore be downloaded relatively easily from the internet. First go to the EPIDATA site, and follow the instructions.
In case of difficulty read the instructions in this file - epidata_instructions.doc

Each of the twelve interviews/ assessments listed above are also supported by epidata data entry files, which can be downloaded as a zip archive file. For the L2Y study, those Epidata questionnaires can be printed and used as data coding sheets by the interviewers.

Click below to download the Life2Years Epidata data entry files, in both English and Spanish

EPIDATA set A

EPIDATA set B

EPIDATA set C